Multiple types of cancer detected with this one test. I look forward to further testing to see if this success rate holds up; if so, this could be done with your routine physical each year. That would be amazing!
Researchers at the Umeå University in Sweden have developed a new RNA test of blood platelets that can detect, classify and pinpoint the location of cancer in the body by analysing a blood sample equivalent in size to just a single drop of blood.
“Being able to detect cancer at an early stage is vital,” said Jonas Nilsson, cancer researcher at Umeå University and co-author of the paper. “We have studied how a whole new blood-based method of biopsy can be used to detect cancer, which in the future renders an invasive cell tissue sample unnecessary in diagnosing lung cancer, for instance.”
In follow-up tests the system wasn’t equally effective but still yielded impressive results. The researchers identified the origin of tumours with an “unsurpassed” 71 percent accuracy in patients with diagnosed cancer in the lung, breast, pancreas, brain, liver, colon and rectum.
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